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Friar Zucchini posted:Well the Suburban is just a 4 speed and it still does lower RPMs at highway speeds. I think it's more a matter of what the gear ratios are than just how many there are of them. Plus I'd say we're lucky they even offer a stick, considering how hard this one was to find. There was one in Alabama and another in NC but they got sold, and mine came out of Panama City FL. I'm in Georgia. 75-80 using cruise control, this includes stop and go in NYC waiting to go over the GW bridge. I was lucky to find mine, the first Ford dealer I went to had a special order 2014 Focus SE with sport package (gunmetal sport wheels, rear discs, etc.) heated black leather, tuxedo black, appearance package, plus the 5 speed. Someone had ordered it and somehow got out of it. Have you discovered FoCCCus yet? There's quite a bit you can mess with in the ECU with a cheapo OBD2 adapter.
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kastein posted:Whoops, sorry, I am not saying that you guys could be replaced by computers. What I meant was "I dunno why anyone capable of flying a commercial airliner actually puts up with the poo poo pay and horrible hours/stress to do so". I would become a pilot for a corp jet or ultra rich eccentric with his own fleet in a second, but flying cattle cars around in the sky full of ornery passengers and getting poo poo on by the company for it while they dick you over pay wise? Fuuuuuck no. You have my undying respect for actually sticking to that because I don't think I would ever make it keep working. I actually sat next to a pilot last trip - he was dead heading home, we got to bullshitting about work, etc. My job - hours suck, being away from home sucks, but at least I am paid pretty decently for it all. He was making half of what I made for way more bullshit, more hours, and less sleep. Why on earth some one would do that poo poo for what they make is beyond me (again the love of flight) He was actually asking me about working for the RR, so I gave him all the specifics, he emailed me today and said that he is applying. Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, I'm not terribly worried about pretty. Gonna cover the bottom quarters with bed liner anyway since I spend so much time on gravel and salt that they're inevitably hosed. If you can get a 220V mig, do it, but be prepared to shell out some cash. I know the entry level Hobart 220v model is the Handler 190, which runs around 700. The mid level model is 1500. But if you can afford a 220 machine, get it. SiF uses a chinesium model that is a good bang for the buck as well. Everlast and Longevity welders seem to be rated pretty high, and they are also good bangs for the buck. Just don't go with a HF model or some eBay special, because those are absolute trash. Edit: I forgot - add in safety gear too, gloves, welding apron, helmet, etc. Just don't get the cheaper auto darkening, get a good one. BrokenKnucklez fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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kastein posted:Whoops, sorry, I am not saying that you guys could be replaced by computers. What I meant was "I dunno why anyone capable of flying a commercial airliner actually puts up with the poo poo pay and horrible hours/stress to do so". I would become a pilot for a corp jet or ultra rich eccentric with his own fleet in a second, but flying cattle cars around in the sky full of ornery passengers and getting poo poo on by the company for it while they dick you over pay wise? Fuuuuuck no. You have my undying respect for actually sticking to that because I don't think I would ever make it keep working. Made an assumption, sorry about that. It's a classic Catch-22; you can't be a professional pilot if you're mentally ill, but you have to be mentally ill to be a professional pilot. The Locator posted:^^ This, a thousand times. The only possible reason I can see to do it is simply the love of flight. The love of flight doesn't put food on the table I'm afraid. Also that love dies a quick death in this business...everything is so heavily scripted from the time you sign in until the time you leave that it can hardly be called flying anymore. MrChips fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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I think I've nearly got enough paint on this thing to give it a final wet sand, then see what I can do about getting a shine on it. (that dark stuff at the back is just shadow from a tree)
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Pham Nuwen posted:I think I've nearly got enough paint on this thing to give it a final wet sand, then see what I can do about getting a shine on it. That's a proper color combo for that car right there.
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MrChips posted:The love of flight doesn't put food on the table I'm afraid. Also that love dies a quick death in this business...everything is so heavily scripted from the time you sign in until the time you leave that it can hardly be called flying anymore. Sounds exactly like me and professional cooking.
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I just drove from Chicago to Bloomington, IN. Driving through Indiana mostly sucks but the parts around Bloomington seem nice.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I think I've nearly got enough paint on this thing to give it a final wet sand, then see what I can do about getting a shine on it. Did you paint it yourself? Nice work!
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Pham Nuwen posted:I think I've nearly got enough paint on this thing to give it a final wet sand, then see what I can do about getting a shine on it. 
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Did you paint it yourself? Nice work! Roll-on Rustoleum job. I generally spend an hour right after work and then a few hours on the weekend when I can... At this point I've been going at it little by little for a few weeks and it's looking nice.
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So Mad Mike Whiddett finished his quad rotor (26B), twin turbo 2014 MX-5 and hes bringing it to the US to compete in Formula drift. http://www.3news.co.nz/sport/mad-mikes-secret-drift-weapon-2015042517#axzz3YIsfPk2w
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Finally got the rest of the vehicles over to the new house. I would've liked a bigger garage, but for a one car its pretty drat roomy. 
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opengl128 posted:Finally got the rest of the vehicles over to the new house. I would've liked a bigger garage, but for a one car its pretty drat roomy. Nothing wrong with that man. Beats the hell out of my single-car garage (where the car and your ladder could likely exist happily together, but not much else.
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Anphear posted:So Mad Mike Whiddett finished his quad rotor (26B), twin turbo 2014 MX-5 and hes bringing it to the US to compete in Formula drift. That's a pretty pissed off sounding vacuum cleaner motor in there.
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nm posted:That's a pretty pissed off sounding vacuum cleaner motor in there. http://www.redbull.com/nz/en/motorsports/stories/1331677863197/project-radbul-power-is-nothing-without-control ...revelation that a four-rotor, twin turbo engine capable of producing well in excess of 1,200 horsepower will power Mad Mike Whidddett’s Project RADBUL, took the Mazda MX-5 pro drift car... So yes its mental, but should produce the smoke the Fans love.
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Noise Complaint posted:Thankfully the 5 speed ones have a factory limited slip so you're not roasting one tire. Are you sure they have a mechanical LSD? The ST with way more power doesn't have one - they use "torque vectoring" (ie, brake actuated traction control.) I can't imagine Ford putting a mechanical LSD in the normal manual Focus and not the performance model...
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I really didn't like one of my best buddies girlfriends, and told him as much. Said he could do way better, etc. He ignored me of course and got married to her a couple of years later. It's really weird what changes over time. My best mates now are a married couple (they have been married for almost 10 years and have an awesome daughter) who now live in the same small town as me. I first met her 15 years ago when my (then) best mate (not her now husband!) who I had grown up with (and at that point lived with) got off with her in a lovely club in town. She was quite annoying and fairly stupid. We were all very drunk. They dated for a couple of years before breaking up. He then started dating (and later married) a crazy girl who banned all contact with any exes and anybody who knew them. Haven't really seen or spoken to him since, speak to them pretty much daily.
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Anphear posted:http://www.redbull.com/nz/en/motorsports/stories/1331677863197/project-radbul-power-is-nothing-without-control Speedhunters has a decent write up on it - http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/04/a-bull-at-the-gate-mad-mikes-26b-tt-mx-5-has-arrived/ According to that they'll run around 1000hp at low boost for reliability and control but can make 1500hp pretty easily. Insane.
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Geoj posted:Are you sure they have a mechanical LSD? The ST with way more power doesn't have one - they use "torque vectoring" (ie, brake actuated traction control.) I can't imagine Ford putting a mechanical LSD in the normal manual Focus and not the performance model... Oh yeah I guess it is "Torque vectoring." When I bought the car I wound up comparing it to others in that field and several comparison sites listed it as having a LSD. (Like this http://www.cars.com/ford/focus/2013/standard-equipment) Either way the torque vectoring seems to perform pretty well as the last FWD vehicle I owned had an aftermarket Quaife and the Focus does pretty much just as well in the snow and slippery conditions.
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opengl128 posted:Finally got the rest of the vehicles over to the new house. I would've liked a bigger garage, but for a one car its pretty drat roomy. Nice SV. GSXR front swap?
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Fun fact, Oreilly's has part numbers in their computer inventory for flux capacitors (121g) and Mr Fusion upgrade kits (121gmf) for the Delorian. EDIT: And on their website. http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/EB00/121G.oap http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/EB00/121GMF.oap Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Elmnt80 posted:Fun fact, Oreilly's has part numbers in their computer inventory for flux capacitors (121g) and Mr Fusion upgrade kits (121gmf) for the Delorian. This is the only good thing about oreilly's especially as I think they ran my entirely old man (and woman) who knows everything about cars staff NAPA in my last city out of business.
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Made it home from Kentucky. It was actually a decent trip. Never flying economy for work again- I could barely open my laptop and type. If I did not have a cordless mouse, I wouldn't have gotten anything done. On a site note, the shine of the new job is wearing off quickly. At least I get to work with some nice people and the paychecks good.
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Tomorrow is a good day. Getting a $3400 check from our renters ($1,000 nonrefundable pet deposit, $1,200 damage deposit, $1,200 first month's rent), who are signing an 18 month corporate lease being paid for by Airbus thereafter. For a house that the monthly payment including property tax and insurance is $587 a month. Saw a Ducati Monster today. Nice bike. I get the itch to pick up a bike every so often, but it passes.
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Tide posted:Getting a $3400 check from our renters ($1,000 nonrefundable pet deposit, $1,200 damage deposit, $1,200 first month's rent), who are signing an 18 month corporate lease being paid for by Airbus thereafter. For a house that the monthly payment including property tax and insurance is $587 a month. fuckrenting.txt
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I'm surw theres a whiskey drinker or two in AI, So I wanted to whore this out. The finest sipping whiskey I have personally come across in the actually obtainable range. By which I mean not some housand dollar one of six limited reserve bullshit. It's a Seattle local whiskey, but if anyone finds it online GET IT. I'm now ojna god damned mission to find a wholel botttle of y own. Holu fuxk its good 
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DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:I'm surw theres a whiskey drinker or two in AI, So I wanted to whore this out. The finest sipping whiskey I have personally come across in the actually obtainable range. By which I mean not some housand dollar one of six limited reserve bullshit. It's a Seattle local whiskey, but if anyone finds it online GET IT. I'm now ojna god damned mission to find a wholel botttle of y own.
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Friar Zucchini posted:So who else can literally hear the drunk in this guy? I do need to try more whiskey though, all I've tried is Jack Daniels and Jim Beam black label. Does that stuff go down any easier? Jum beam is my go to broke wheoskey with bulliet rye my feelng fancy and t how bowsl both of them out lf the wawattwr
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Friar Zucchini posted:So who else can literally hear the drunk in this guy? I do need to try more whiskey though, all I've tried is Jack Daniels and Jim Beam black label. Does that stuff go down any easier? Generally the nicer the whiskey, the smoother it is, to a point. Then it comes down to the individual tastes of each one. Some taste really good while others effectively taste like someone threw a clump of soil in your mouth.
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Tide posted:Tomorrow is a good day. Friday is my good day. I could pay my credit card off or buy a Focus RS  perhaps being responsible is the answer.
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Today was a good day. On my way to work (I was the 2nd driver in, due in at 12), my boss calls me panicked, saying "dude, get here ASAP, I have 6 orders on the screen and one driver, how far away are you?". I told him to look outside (I'd just pulled in). He'd already clocked me in, and ran outside with two deliveries and my bank as I was getting out of the car ($15 to make change with through the day). I've made more in the past 2 weeks at the Hut than I did in almost 2 months at Jet's, and I'm consistently getting asked if I mind staying late, instead of "hey it's slow, wanna cut out early?". My bills went from 2 months behind on most stuff to current on everything in the slightly less than 2 weeks I've been back. Going to do a decent purchase soon and put a ceiling fan in my room (so I can stop melting in here), though swapping in a proper ceiling fan box will be a bitch with all the blown in insulation. At least I have attic access and a rake, so I can get to the box from both above and below. This one, with an added remote, looks pretty spiffy (especially the black marble side of the blades). Wound up with 25 orders for the day, stayed an hour and a half late (hour and a half late yesterday too), and $120 in my pocket. Left me in a really good mood, so I figured I'd try the bowling alley down the street from work (they have much better rates than the 24/7 Plano Super Bowl about 5 miles away, and it's a much smaller place). Originally planned on bowling 2 games, wound up bowling 4. I suck at bowling (my high score tonight was 120), but it was still fun, and it actually gave me a little exercise. For whatever reason the manager didn't charge me for a shoe rental when I booked the lane; when I went to pay for 2 more games, the clerk said "... you brought your own shoes, right? I don't see a rental on here". Uh.. yeah, yeah I did! The lanes look like they could use refinishing at some point, but only at the very beginning of them. Only gripe is it's impossible for me to find a light ball that fits my monster thumb (I prefer 10, MAYBE 12 pounders), though that's common everywhere. I wound up with a 14, and was still managing to clock 17-18 mph with it. The bad part: I was expecting a shipment of headphones from meh.com. They weren't here. I checked the tracking, and it showed "Delivered to mailbox". Tried to file a claim with USPS, but the package wasn't insured (wtf?), so I've contacted both meh and USPS. Our carrier commonly (WAY too often) delivers orders to, we'll say 1233, instead of 1223. And the lady that lives at 1233 always either waits weeks to mark it "return to sender" or it just disappears. I've actually asked our carrier about a package that was due that day before when he dropped off our mail without the package, and he got an "oh poo poo" look on his face and hauled rear end back up to that house, and had to argue with the lady to get the package back. Unfortunately, this order was paid for with a debit card, but it was paid for with my USAA debit card, and USAA is pretty good about siding with the customer. Tide posted:Tomorrow is a good day. The house across the street from me rents for $2200/month (or did, last time I saw a rental sign out front - it rented in less than 2 weeks). It's a 3 bed/2 bath/2 car garage, upper-middle class neighborhood, built in 1994, no upgrades ever done. Our house was built by the same builder, but it's 4/2/2. Our mortgage was under $1000/month (parents did put down a significant down payment, but still). It's paid off now, though property taxes are a little steep. That's a pretty hefty nonrefundable pet deposit though, you might want to make sure that's legal in your state. Your state may also require that damage deposits be placed in an interest-bearing account. Still, it's a corporate lease, so Airbus probably didn't bat an eye. Friar Zucchini posted:Well the Suburban is just a 4 speed and it still does lower RPMs at highway speeds. I think it's more a matter of what the gear ratios are than just how many there are of them. Plus I'd say we're lucky they even offer a stick, considering how hard this one was to find. There was one in Alabama and another in NC but they got sold, and mine came out of Panama City FL. I'm in Georgia. Vehicles with larger engines tend to be geared a lot lower - they have more torque, and the larger engines don't live as long at high RPMs as small engines do. Helps mileage a lot too, and the bigger engine has enough grunt to get it up and going. Plus GM just has a serious boner for tall gearing. My 5 speed manual Ion (basically a Chevy Cobalt) is well below 3000 at 70 MPH, and that's with a small 2.2L. It does help that it has a ridiculously flat torque curve (especially for a 4 cylinder), but I have to drop 1 or even 2 gears to pass someone at highway speeds. opengl128 posted:Finally got the rest of the vehicles over to the new house. I would've liked a bigger garage, but for a one car its pretty drat roomy. Your one car garage is much deeper (and almost as wide!) as my 2 car garage - and when we actually do get 2 cars in ours, they're parked so close together that you have to weigh 150 or less to squeeze out of them. Actually, if you put the door on the wall with the window, and add about a foot, you'd have my garage. Any house I buy will have to have a real garage, not a cramped closet that a 90s Accord could barely squeeze into. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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some texas redneck posted:Vehicles with larger engines tend to be geared a lot lower - they have more torque, and the larger engines don't live as long at high RPMs as small engines do. Helps mileage a lot too, and the bigger engine has enough grunt to get it up and going. Maybe just a dumb way to make the DCT sell better since the manual gets worse fuel economy because they "forgot" to add a sixth gear? Friar Zucchini fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Friar Zucchini posted:But that's my question. I know the Suburban is supposed to be a huge beast with six liters of Vortec fury and literally all of the torque because who gives a gently caress about fuel economy when you can tow Betelgeuse, or at least five tons of it, but the Focus is supposed to be an efficient commuter so I just don't get why the Focus is geared lower. The engine is likely tuned to operate most efficiently at whatever RPMs you wind up at in the tallest gear at typical highway speeds. Smaller cars get smaller engines, which generate their power at higher RPMs, and operate more efficiently at a higher RPM than, say the 6.0 in a Suburban. The 6.0 is quite happy to cruise all day at <2000 RPM while doing highway speeds, and could still pass someone without downshifting... while trying to push your Focus to do highway speeds at those RPMs would destroy the engine in a hurry. You know how it sounds really unhappy if you, say, go into 3rd gear doing 15 mph? That's essentially what would happen if it were geared like the Suburban, and lugging does do long term damage. Think of it like trying to pedal a 21 speed bicycle uphill in the tallest gear. It isn't going to happen without really hurting yourself. My 01 Honda Accord would get 34+ MPG cruising at 3500-4000 RPM with the a/c on at 70-80 mph, no problem at all. I actually drove it from Dallas to Austin, stayed in Austin several days, then drove back, all on one tank, and averaged a bit over 33 MPG on that tank (EPA rating was 31 highway). It's part gearing, part aero, part engine tuning. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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I'll continue on the it was a good day train. I cleaned, cooked food for the week then smoked a cigar and sharpened some knives...that was the entirety of my day. I've been doing so much running around, working on stuff and stressing over work/relationship poo poo the last month or so it was nice to have a day of nothing. Then to make things better the roommates left at 5 to go try a new Mexican restaurant. They drank too much (as usual) so they stayed at a hotel which means I didn't get woken up by stupid drunks. Think I'll tackle the shifter bushings and install the short shift in the E21 today, maybe yank the 928 alternator if the weather cooperates.
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I love that they opened the new track right down the road from me. When I stop by the gas station, the cars there have shifted from Corvettes to Ferraris, Porsches, Lambos, GT-Rs, and so on; thank goodness. Always makes my day when I stop to grab a Monster and see a track-prepped 911 GT3 just chillin'.
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DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:Jum beam is my go to broke wheoskey with bulliet rye my feelng fancy and t how bowsl both of them out lf the wawattwr Just drinking the standard bulleit now. rye is hella rare in aussie, only seen a jim beam rye and it costs more than black, and hardly anyone stocks it. and yeah, anything drinkable is $40+ I find non rye whiskeys too sweet, but you got to do what All my favourite gins I drank over summer all went up in price too much. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Devyl posted:I love that they opened the new track right down the road from me. When I stop by the gas station, the cars there have shifted from Corvettes to Ferraris, Porsches, Lambos, GT-Rs, and so on; thank goodness. Always makes my day when I stop to grab a Monster and see a track-prepped 911 GT3 just chillin'. How the hell had I not heard about this track until just now? Looks to be about 15 minutes closer than Barber to me. I should try to get the 320i up there this summer and see if I can raise the average laptimes a bit. Looks like a fun track too.
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DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:Jum beam is my go to broke wheoskey with bulliet rye my feelng fancy and t how bowsl both of them out lf the wawattwr Pfft, Beam. Get on the level and get a bottle of Evan Williams. Better taste, $10/750ml
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Liquid Communism posted:Pfft, Beam. Get on the level and get a bottle of Evan Williams. Better taste, $10/750ml Pffft. At least I can sometimes get beam absolutely anywhere for $35. Evan williams is an exclusive import to one store chain only here, which is nowhere nearby, and $47. E: I hate the bastards (coles/liquorland) that got sole rights to import that. At $40+, I rather drink irish whiskey. E: VVVV All that to read a DVD? Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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